Theology of Taoism

[RajputMaster24]

Friends, is Taoism pantheistic? From what I've read it seems that some schools of Taoism propound pantheism and other schools propound polytheism. Some schools teach the worship of the Jade Emperor as the supreme being. What is the theology of Taoism?

 

[paarsurrey]

Friends, is Taoism pantheistic? From what I've read it seems that some schools of Taoism propound pantheism and other schools propound polytheism. What is the theology of Taoism?

Still others say that Taoism speaks of Oneness of G-d. Please

Regards

 

[psychoslice]

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. Lao Tzu

 

[psychoslice]

 

[Willamena]

Despite the great philosopher Sergeant Shultz, and the implication that we shouldn't speak, that's pretty much the only way to hear about the Way.

 

[psychoslice]

Despite the great philosopher Sergeant Shultz, and the implication that we shouldn't speak, that's pretty much the only way to hear about the Way.

Yes in the beginning there is a need to hear about the way, whatever that means, but then we need to drop it, we need to drop the way to become the way.......and really we are already that which is.

 

[psychoslice]

And Lao Tzu says: This is the way to be really religious. Float with Tao, move with Tao, don’t create any private goals and ends, the whole knows better, you be simply with it. The whole has created you, the whole breathes within you, the whole lives in you, why do YOU bother? Let the responsibility be with the whole. You simply go wherever it leads.

 

[GoodbyeDave]

Since Daoism is a philosophy, it's compatible with many religious views. But most, I believe, would agree with the priest Kristofer Schipper who wrote that every human "differs from the great gods of the pantheon only in their strength". His ordination certificate as a priest of the Orthodox Unity sect authorised him to carry out rites "so that the gods will rejoice".

 

[paarsurrey]

Since Daoism is a philosophy, it's compatible with many religious views. But most, I believe, would agree with the priest Kristofer Schipper who wrote that every human "differs from the great gods of the pantheon only in their strength". His ordination certificate as a priest of the Orthodox Unity sect authorised him to carry out rites "so that the gods will rejoice".

I couldn't get one exactly what I have colored in magenta. Please elaborate further for us with your own understanding of the same. Right? Please
Regards

 

[paarsurrey]

And Lao Tzu says: This is the way to be really religious. Float with Tao, move with Tao, don’t create any private goals and ends, the whole knows better, you be simply with it. The whole has created you, the whole breathes within you, the whole lives in you, why do YOU bother? Let the responsibility be with the whole. You simply go wherever it leads.

Is it a quote from Lao Tzu? Please give 5 verses/sentences before and five after for the context, and the link , if possible. Right? Please
Regards

 

[idav]

Friends, is Taoism pantheistic? From what I've read it seems that some schools of Taoism propound pantheism and other schools propound polytheism. Some schools teach the worship of the Jade Emperor as the supreme being. What is the theology of Taoism?

I could see both pantheism and polytheism with both being a possibility in Taoism but really pantheism doesn't exclude polytheism.

 

[psychoslice]

Is it a quote from Lao Tzu? Please give 5 verses/sentences before and five after for the context, and the link , if possible. Right? Please
Regards

Sorry I should have put where the quot came from, I can't remember, but it was actually paraphrasing what Lao Tzu said, and I believe it to be beautifully said, after all whatever we say about the Tao isn't the Tao, so there is no argument, anything we try to argue about is just ignorance, so I myself never try to say too much about the so called Tao.

 

[GoodbyeDave]

… every human differs from the great gods of the pantheon only in their strength.

What that means is that humans and gods are not seen as different types of being, but simply as differing in power.